Five sheets with printing on both sides, entitled "[Form 1.] Bill of Purchase--Commissary's Department. The State of Tennessee." The five bills of purchase deal with blacksmithing a bake oven door; use of labor of two boys, Ely and Lucien; the...

L.V.F. writes about Yankees roughly foraging for food and the wholesale destruction that accompanied this until the Col. [her husband] went to the home where a Major was quartered which helped for a while. She further writes of "masterly...

The cause of the South has gone down. Yesteday Fench and Martha worked all day making cakes, molasses candy, egg-nog, etc. for the children. She had a difficult time finding items for the children's stockings. She had a set of tiny coffee cups and...

The cause of the South has gone down. Yesteday Fench and Martha worked all day making cakes, molasses candy, egg-nog, etc. for the children. She had a difficult time finding items for the children's stockings. She had a set of tiny coffee cups and...

Hobart Parrish describing how aware he was of the conditions in the Great Depression and the New Deal. He saw pictures from New York or Pittsburgh of people in soup lines. In his area they were unable to sell produce but mostly raised their own...

Hobart Parrish describing what attracted him to join the Civilian Conservation Corps. He could get an education, earn money, and learn a trade. It was difficult to go to college, and he felt he would get the same preparation in the Civilian...

Letter from Pvt. Hershel Bell Wilson, Co. A, 23rd Tenn. Inf. Regt., to his mother while camped near Richmond, Va. Wilson and his family were from Smith County, Tenn. The letter is stained and the ink is faded, making it difficult to read.

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At Mr. Zachary Johnson's
Near Piedmont
Augusta Co. Va.
Darling Toad,
You will excuse my long silence when you know how difficult it is for me to
write; and also, for sometime after I was wounded we were in the Yankey lines, and
letters had...

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will come down to see
you again before I leave. Write to me in answer to this and unless you
desire me not to do so I shall not presume to write to you again.
O. Cas. King
P.S. I should have told you this while I was down but my heart...

Letter from Pvt. James Long, Co. E. 5th Ky. Cav., USA, to friend "Amos". He sends condolences to Amos for his father's passing, and writes of the weather in the Chattanooga area. He reports that they are "finding it more and more difficult to find...

Letter from Titus Rodgers to his mother. He tells her that he is well and his company has been twelve days on the march. Titus enlisted in Chicago with his brother Oliver. Family lore states that he was on Gen. Grant's staff. He is said to have...

The cause of the South has gone down. Yesteday Fench and Martha worked all day making cakes, molasses candy, egg-nog, etc. for the children. She had a difficult time finding items for the children's stockings. She had a set of tiny coffee cups and...

After a stormy night French is grateful for shelter, warmth and children that are well. However, she is still preoccupied with the 1864 presidential election. On the home front she is cutting out clothing, making comforts, shirts and has apple...